Concept Note for the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent August 25th 2019
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Friends of the African Union Operational Principles adopted by the Friends of the African Union
on November 19th 2012.
We support the African Union [AU], it’s constitutive act and the history of the predecessor
organization the Organisation of African Unity [OAU].
We support the recognition of the African Diaspora globally and legally by the AU.
We support the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its application to Africans and
their condition worldwide.
We support the UN Millennium Development Goals for Africa and the economic-social uplift of
Africans on the continent and in the African Diaspora as well work of the African Union in
regards to increasing trade between African Nations and will incorporate the work of the
International Year for People of African Descent [2011] as it was designated by the UN and
Organization of American States.
We support the strategy and agenda of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC)
and through organization of African American Civil Society we support the legacy projects and
continuing efforts to strengthen the Global African Diaspora Initiative of the AU.
We support Peace, Security and basic human dignity within Africa and around the globe, with
an emphasis on stopping slavery in the AU and the African Diaspora.
We support the organization of African and peoples of African descent self-interest and uplift
through a committee structure and take responsibility for organizing such in the United States of
America.
We support the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of 2000 and by 2014 the creation
of a new plan between the United States of America and the African Union that is supportive of
the African Diaspora in the USA and would be sustainable not only in Africa but also in the host
countries of the African Diaspora.
We support political empowerment of Africans as individual citizens and in free associations on
cooperation and solidarity in the continent and in Diaspora.
We support the creation of the African American Diaspora Holding Company & Investment Trust
who will start with creating a financial solution. In addition based on the 1st Global African
Diaspora Convention (2015) and subsequent meetings we agreed to be focused on spreading
the word of the African Union Global Diaspora Summit of 2012 Diaspora goals and the AU’s
Agenda 2063 Plan. Agenda 2063 is Africa's 50 year framework for Pan African unification and
prosperity based on their over $300T is assets and population of 1.3B people in 2019. .
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The African Diaspora is
mainly those persons of
African descent
dispersed from Africa
into Europe, the Arab
lands and the Americas
during Arab and
European commercial
slave raids. It also
consists of those
persons who voluntarily
migrated from Africa in
the 20th and 21st
century. The African
population in the
2030 it is expected to have over 2B pop Western Hemisphere is
about 150 million
persons in South
America (mainly Brazil &
Columbia), with 3M in
Central America, 42M in
the Caribbean, 22M in
the Middle East, 20M in
Asia (Including
India/Indonesia), 13M in
Europe and 50M in
North America, 47M of
them in the United
States of America.
(According to the 2018
US Census Bureau
Estimate)
This was our start with
the African Union, at the
African Union Mission to
the United Nations. We
were one of two
organizations that
brought funding
requests to the table.
Ours was for $1.25T
based on the $16T in
Federal Reserve debt
that the US President
had. We discussed that
as our Chairman sat on
the reparations ($19T in
2013 USD) roundtable.
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From this conference in 2015 Hershel Daniels Junior handed to then Presiding Officer Chilengi
on November 21st 2015 at the Global African Diaspora Stakeholders Convention a Concept
note for the “AGREEMENT between the people of the African Diaspora and ECOSOCC in
regards to decisions to the five tasks given unto us the people of Africa in the sixth region, as
defined by AU document, on this day November 21st 2015, do hereby give this report to the
leadership of the African Union.” It has taken 4 additional years for us to reach this point.
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During that time we updated our 2013 $1.25T request to the US Federal Government to $5T
using the 2015 Universal Periodic Review of the USA that said “Civil Rights, Ethnic, and Racial
Discrimination” is the number one human rights problem in the nation. Here is a summary:
FAU believed that Obama Administration executive action of a $5T USD Quantitative Easing
debt purchasing program called the #BlackFolksPlan that used The Daniels IDIQ (under
license) would be a solution for the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of 76
years African slavery in the USA and its effects subsequently de jure and de facto of racial and
economic discrimination on the descendant Americans of African heritage. In 2016 they said no.
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We did that 2015/16 work using the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (#UNUPR). The
#UNUPR was established by the UN General Assembly in 2006, as a process through which
the human rights records of the United Nations’ Member States are reviewed and assessed.
This review, conducted through the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), is based upon human
rights obligations and commitments expressed in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, and other human rights instruments to which the State is a party, such as human
rights conventions. Individual countries are slated for review every four and a half years, with
the United States scheduled for its second review in May 2015. UPR sessions take place at the
HRC in Geneva, and are framed by reports submitted by national governments.
On 31 March 2009 the administration of Barack Obama announced that it would reverse the
country’s previous position and would join the UNHRC. For 2 years from 2015 through 2016 we
negotiated with the US State Department on our solution but the answer was no. What we did
not have was an effective strategy, proof of concept and the partners to implement our solution.
Now even as the US Government has again withdrawn from the UNHRC, the 2020 #UNUPR
will go on. The African Diaspora Directorate co-founders FAU believes that executive action by
the US Government of a debt purchasing program can be a solution for the fundamental
injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of African slavery in the United States of America
(USA and or America) between 1789 & 1865 and progenitors to the 13 American colonies
between 1619 & 1789 & its effects subsequently de jure & de facto of racial & economic
discrimination on the descendant Americans of America’s African slavery. It will address the
damage incurred by past & current federal government racism against freed African Slaves in
the USA from 1865 to 1868 & African Americans from 1868 to 2019. It will be a stimulus to the
American Economy that: (1) is judicious & addresses solutions to lead poisoning in 7M USA
dwellings; (2) answers under the control of a public-private partnership to the statements in the
interagency response set forth by the US State Department to the United Nations Universal
Periodic Review of the USA in 2015 that said “Civil Rights, Ethnic, & Racial Discrimination” is
the number one human rights problem in the USA; (3) draws on already established Executive
authority & market infrastructure; (4) helps the other Americans through indirect associations by
the creation of supportive ancillary jobs & entrepreneurial opportunities thereby supporting the
advancement of the American people as a whole, and; (5) is just adequate enough to implement
real changes that reverse long-standing conditions caused by systemic de jure and de facto
racial and economic discrimination, as documented in depth elsewhere and that provides a
means from 2019 to 2169 to address these issues with a 150-year trust to do so. This proposal
of the African Diaspora Directorate is to have 30 5 year periods for capitalization from investors
who are the debt buyers of this program. The updated #BlackFolksPlan uses a superset of ISO
26000 and the over $90B in bank based community benefit agreements as proof of concept.
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The creation of the African Diaspora Directorate was first made public in the Friends of
the African Union Concept Note for the 24th Session of the The Working Group of Experts
on People of African Descent which took place 25-29 March 2019 in Geneva at UNHRC HQ.
The public session Data for Racial Justice was based a thematic session that involved specific
focus on mapping exercises and brought together experts to discuss the human rights situation
of People of African Descent globally. It also involved a comprehensive look at varied
intersections of big data and racial justice (and injustice) globally. The following from below on
page 7 through 10 was entered into the record as FAU’s response to the session.
Friends of the African Union (FAU), which is an Ohio non-reporting unincorporated association
(2012), and the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation (1999) which does business as FAU
Global Operations Center (2019) and its public beneficiary company FAU EDcorp, Inc. (2016)
and Friends of the African Union smartWISE Economic Development, Inc. (2018) is proposing
solutions to problems experienced by the African Diaspora in the USA during the International
Decade for People of African Descent through the creation of the African Diaspora Directorate.
The African Diaspora Directorate (ADD) is to be a new unit of FAU designed to serve as a
catalyst to facilitate the involvement of African Diasporan peoples around the world in the affairs
of the Africa Union. ADD is proposed to have four divisions (1) the Secretariat of the African
Diaspora’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (2) the Civil Society Division (3) Diaspora
Division and the (4) Operations Division. The African Diaspora’s Economic, Social and Cultural
Council, which is composed of civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-state organs is to be
established in the USA by August 25th 2019.
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The creation of the ADD Operations Division coincides with a Big Data Revolution that has the
capacity to both uplift and injure people of African descent, both individually and systemically.
This division will work, in 2019, with The Working Group of Experts of the People of African
Descent to examine aspects of these issues, facilitate public debate, and promote engagement
by varied stakeholders with a focus on Hamilton County Ohio in the United States.
We will use a in depth study of Hamilton County Ohio to create a framework to study the human
rights situation of people of African descent in United States of America.
We address the question in the United Nations Concept Note 24th Session of theWorking
Group of Experts on People of African Descent 25-29 March 2019 in its Request for data
guidance note, “What data, analysis and studies exist on the composition of the population; the
human rights situation; and on measures to address racial disparities and provide redress and
remedy for racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance and
historical injustices constituting crimes against humanity.” using these sources”
1. US Census Bureau Profile America Facts for Features: CB19-FF.01 FEB. 26, 2019
2. The UN HRC’s 2015 Universal Periodic Review (#UNUPR) of the USA as part of the
Second Cycle with a date of consideration: Monday 11 May 2015 - 9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and
our Friends of the African Union New Future Foundation solution response uUN Doc
JS51_UPR22_USA_E_Main
3. Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - visit to United
States of America, 19-29 January 2016 (A/HRC/33/61/Add.2
4. Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Mission to the
United States of America (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1)
5. Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Mission to the United States of
America (A/HRC/36/37/Add.2)
6. Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/35/37/Add.2)
7. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/35/28/Add.2)
8. Congressional Black Caucus Report (2017) We Have A Lot To Lose: Solutions To
Advance Black Families In The 21st Century
9. An Overview of Black or African American Population Statistics Greg Pewett Training
Specialist, Education and Training Branch Customer Liaison and Marketing Services Office U.S.
Census Bureau November 2016
10. The State of Black America®, the National Urban League’s seminal annual publication now
in its 41st edition (2017)
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11. The State of Black Cincinnati 2015: A TALE OF TWO CITIES by the Urban League of
Greater Southwestern Ohio
12. Black Dollars Matter: The Sales Impact of Black Consumers, Nielsen Homescan, Total U.S.,
for the 52 weeks ending Dec. 30, 2017.
13. Plan Cincinnati (2012) a City Planning Guide
14. Cincinnati Empowerment Zone Plan Application (1999)
We acknowledge that our cumulative gross product is over $1.2 Trillion Dollars but also accept
that African Americans continue to lag behind their white counterparts.
When it comes to equal access to employment, housing, education, and other areas like the fact
that of the USA’s 2.6M African American owned businesses less that 122k employ more than
1-person African American have gaps because of historic racism that can be quantified.
Friends of the African Union on this day of this Historic Black History Month, February 28th,
2019, pledge, “We as Citizens of the United States of America who are decedent from Africans
made new citizens in 1868, 150 years ago , in order to form a more perfect Union, establish
equality of justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare, and secure the equal blessings of liberty to ourselves and our future
generations, in the USA and throughout the world, do ordain as organized civil society and
establish this month a working group to establish a 150 year (2019-2169) Black Folks Plan
(#2019BlackFolksPlan) that is to deliver its work by August 25th 2019. This date being the 400th
year anniversary of landing of the first Africans in the English colonies in 1619 at Old Point
Comfort, which would later become part of the state of Virginia, one of the founding states of the
United States of America."
We do this work now after 400 years in the English Colonies as a solution to the results of the
fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of African slavery in the USA for 77
years (1788-1865) and the 168 years (1619 - 1787) in the progenitors to the 13 English colonies
that made up the United States of America. Its is a solution to the effects subsequently de jure &
de facto of racial & economic discrimination on the descendant Americans of America’s African
slavery as detailed in this proposed body of work for the Working Group of Experts of People of
African Descent.
From our beginning 400 years ago on August 25th, 1619 at Old Point Comfort as Africans and
then as African Americans (1868) we have played a vital role in the building of the USA and now
it is time we rebuild our global community, first in the USA, then in unity with the African
Diaspora and by 2020 in the Nations of the current African Union.
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FAU recognizes that becoming Americans did not create economic opportunity, rather the laws
and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments actually promoted the
discriminatory patterns that continue to this day in the practice of institutionalized racism on
Americans of African Descent. We will build a solution for that called the #2019BlackFolksPlan.
The #2019BlackFolksPlan is to be a solution based on our work presented to the Working
Group of Experts of People of African Descent in 2017 to provide a solutions to the practice of
institutionalized racism in government and business on the descendant Americans of African
heritage from 1868 through today and as important their effects subsequently de jure & de facto
of that racial & economic discrimination.
Hershel Daniels Junior
Chairman (# End Paper to the The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent)
Listed below is why Friends of the African Union as manager of African Diaspora Directorate -
The statement (right) is based on the United Nations HRC Working Group of Experts on People of African
Descent (#WGEPAD) visit to the United
States of America, 19-29 January 2016
(A/HRC/33/61/Add.2 ) and is the basis
for our upcoming report based on the
over $90B in bank based community
benenfit agreements currently in place
that can be used as a framework for our
2015 solution for the fundamental
injustice, cruelty, brutality, and
inhumanity of 76 years African slavery
in the USA and its effects subsequently
de jure and de facto of racial and economic discrimination on the descendant Americans of African
heritage. Our goal is to bring over 400 organizations in support of this plan into agreement with the
African Diaspora Directorate so that we will release the updated #BlackFolksPlan concept paper during
the national 400 Years of African-American History Commemoration on August 25th 2019.
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FYI - Item 9 Interactive Dialogue with Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Statement by the United States of America as Country Concerned
Delivered by Ambassador Keith Harper
33rd Session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva,
September 26, 2016
The United States was pleased to invite, and to facilitate the visit of,the Working Group of Experts on
People of African Descent for a country visit from January 19-29, 2016. We welcome the chair of the
Working Group, Ricardo Sunga III, here today.
The Working Group met with federal, state, and local government officials, judges and lawyers, members
of Congress, police officers, academics, members of civil society, and hundreds of African Americans, in
Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Jackson, Mississippi; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City.
The Working Group’s visit addressed a comprehensive range of issues impacting African-Americans, and
members of other minorities, within the United States, including issues related to the criminal justice
system, barriers to political participation, disparities in access to education, health, housing and
employment, and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
We were happy to arrange this visit and take note of the Working Group’s conclusions and
recommendations, which we will distribute to relevant stakeholders, including the state and local
government officials who met with the Working Group, for appropriate consideration.
We would like to highlight some of the steps, among many, that the United States has been taking to
address issues addressed by the Working Group in its report.
On Saturday, September 24, the United States was proud to open its newest addition to the Smithsonian
Institution, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. It is the
only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and
culture. And further to the recommendation of the Working Group that “monuments, memorials and
markers […] be erected to facilitate public dialogue” we note that new projects are emerging around the
country, such as a planned memorial to the victims of lynching to be built by the Equal Justice Initiative in
Montgomery, Alabama, in 2017.
We appreciate the Working Group’s recognition of the “My Brother’s Keeper” (MBK) Task Force, a
coordinated Federal effort to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color
and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential. In response to the President’s call to
action, nearly 250 communities in all 50 states have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper
Community Challenge; more than $600 million in private sector and philanthropic grants and in-kind
resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing have been committed in alignment with MBK; and new
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federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance are being implemented to ensure that every child
has a clear pathway to success from cradle to college and career.
Earlier this year, in response to recommendations from the MBK initiative, the Department of Education
released a new resource guide, “Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for
Justice-Involved Individuals,” urging colleges and universities to remove barriers that can prevent citizens
with criminal records from pursuing higher education. And just a few weeks ago, the Departments of
Education and Justice put out new tools on the appropriate use of school resource officers and law
enforcement to improve school climates, help ensure safety, and support student achievement in our
nation’s schools.
We would encourage the Working Group to devote more attention to issues surrounding racism that are
more prominent in public discourse, particularly police brutality and racial profiling, and in this regard we
would highlight the work of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. In May 2015, the Task
Force submitted to the President a final report of best practices and recommendations, based on
expertise from stakeholders and input from the public. The task force recommendations provide
meaningful solutions to help law enforcement agencies and communities strengthen trust and
collaboration, while ushering the nation into the next phase of community-focused policing. The report
was followed by an Implementation Guide, which outlines strategies to assist stakeholders with
implementation. Thousands of agencies, associations, and related organizations across the country are
now implementing various task force recommendations.
Furthermore, DOJ has opened numerous civil rights investigations into police departments that may have
engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives persons of their rights. In addition, DOJ has
obtained more than 250 criminal convictions against police officers in the past five years.
On issues of prison conditions, we would highlight that in January of this year, President Obama
announced the adoption of recommendations by DOJ on the use of solitary confinement in the federal
prison system, including the ending of solitary confinement for juveniles.
Finally, we reaffirm our commitment to promote racial and ethnic equality to mark the International
Decade for People of African Descent. In doing so, we recognize the common challenges faced by
persons of African descent in the United States and all over the world. The Decade is an opportunity for
the United States to encourage positive domestic discourse on human rights at home, highlight over 50
years of progress under the U.S. Civil Rights Act, and work with international partners to promote
nondiscrimination and equality.
The United States has made great progress toward countering racial discrimination, xenophobia, and
related forms of intolerance, but we acknowledge much remains to be done. Although we may not agree
with all of its factual or legal conclusions, we thank the Working Group for its findings from its constructive
visit.
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